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I was VERY lightly rubbing the eye from top to bottom. I guess I should've known to just tap. But I'm pretty sure the eye is blind. When it's open, it looks all foggy. So, isn't that a confirmed blind eye?
Do you mean cotton balls? And the chick acts fine. It actually seems it's been a little better, but when he opens the eye a little bit, it looks foggy back there. Is that eye blind?
The eye has no feathers on the eyelid, and it seems to be a little swollen. It's like a white type of color. This is most likely an infection. The chick seems to be to where it can barely see it's food and water, or find the other chicks.
I went out there and noticed him on the ground. The bigger chickens weren't even bothering him. Somehow he slipped through the chicken wire getting away from the mother. But I put him back in there. The eye that is really bad seems to have no feathers on the eye lid part. Could it be because...
No predators. Thats out of the question. But I found the chick playing with the other chicks today, but it likes to hang around with mom a lot.
But it's horrible it can only see with one eye, and it's not opened really wide. Also, it looks like the eye goes back into the head on the side or...
UPDATE/EDIT: The chick seems to act normal, but it does have trouble finding food and water but it usually finds it. It also sometime falls out the side of the coop going through the chicken wire. The right eye seems to be a little better, and has no problems it's just a aligned a little weird...